Did Dalí Trick Yoko Ono Into Buying a Blade of Grass for $10,000?
When it comes to Salvador Dalí, the most compelling stories seem at once blatantly apocryphal and perfectly plausible—a definition, of sorts, for Surrealism itself. So it goes with Dalí’s correspondence with Yoko Ono. The two first met while Ono was on her European honeymoon with John Lennon in 1969. As newspaper reporters shadowed the world’s…